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oapen-20.500.12657-507532021-10-06T02:45:31Z Negotiating Climate Change in Crisis Böhm, Steffen Sullivan, Sian carbon emissions; case studies; climate activism; climate change; climate change frontline country; climate change negotiation; climate crisis; extraction; finance; governance; paradigms; social sciences; bic Book Industry Communication::R Earth sciences, geography, environment, planning::RN The environment bic Book Industry Communication::R Earth sciences, geography, environment, planning::RN The environment::RNT Social impact of environmental issues bic Book Industry Communication::R Earth sciences, geography, environment, planning::RN The environment::RNA Environmentalist thought & ideology bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences bic Book Industry Communication::P Mathematics & science::PS Biology, life sciences::PSA Life sciences: general issues::PSAF Ecological science, the Biosphere "Climate change negotiations have failed the world. Despite more than thirty years of high-level, global talks on climate change, we are still seeing carbon emissions rise dramatically. This edited volume, comprising leading and emerging scholars and climate activists from around the world, takes a critical look at what has gone wrong and what is to be done to create more decisive action. Composed of twenty-eight essays—a combination of new and republished texts—the anthology is organised around seven main themes: paradigms; what counts?; extraction; dispatches from a climate change frontline country; governance; finance; and action(s). Through this multifaceted approach, the contributors ask pressing questions about how we conceptualise and respond to the climate crisis, providing both ‘big picture’ perspectives and more focussed case studies. This unique and extensive collection will be of great value to environmental and social scientists alike, as well as to the general reader interested in understanding current views on the climate crisis." 2021-10-05T14:39:40Z 2021-10-05T14:39:40Z 2021 book 9781800642607 9781800642614 9781800642638 9781800642645 9781800642652 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/50753 eng application/pdf Attribution 4.0 International 9781800642621.pdf https://www.openbookpublishers.com/product/1488 Open Book Publishers 10.11647/OBP.0265 10.11647/OBP.0265 23117811-c361-47b4-8b76-2c9b160c9a8b 9781800642607 9781800642614 9781800642638 9781800642645 9781800642652 ScholarLed 472 open access
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"Climate change negotiations have failed the world. Despite more than thirty years of high-level, global talks on climate change, we are still seeing carbon emissions rise dramatically. This edited volume, comprising leading and emerging scholars and climate activists from around the world, takes a critical look at what has gone wrong and what is to be done to create more decisive action.
Composed of twenty-eight essays—a combination of new and republished texts—the anthology is organised around seven main themes: paradigms; what counts?; extraction; dispatches from a climate change frontline country; governance; finance; and action(s). Through this multifaceted approach, the contributors ask pressing questions about how we conceptualise and respond to the climate crisis, providing both ‘big picture’ perspectives and more focussed case studies.
This unique and extensive collection will be of great value to environmental and social scientists alike, as well as to the general reader interested in understanding current views on the climate crisis."
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